Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Asian American
Year Published 1973
Word Count 41,732
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1040L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 363, 7.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Concentration camps
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Japanese Americans--Biography
- Japanese Americans
- California
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- World War, 1939-1945
- Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Manzanar War Relocation Center
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